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Open Book Futures: Diary of events
An up-to-date list of events that the Copim community has organised and/or participated in as part of the Open Book Futures project.
Published onJun 30, 2023
Open Book Futures: Diary of events
Events with contributions from the Open Book Futures team
Wherever possible, we have worked with presenters to make abstracts & presentations openly available via our Copim community on Zenodo.
Date | Type | Contribution title | Event title | Contributor(s) | Further details | |||||
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8-14 Dec 2024 | Talk | TBC | 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access: Centering Social Justice in Scholarly Communication to Advance Research as a Public Good | Janneke Adema | ||||||
9-10 Dec 2024 | Pre-Conference Workshop | 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access | Joe Deville, Judith Fatahallah, Rupert Gatti, Vincent van Gerven Oei, … | https://doasummit.uct.ac.za/programme & https://doasummit.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/media/documents/doasummit_uct_ac_za/2642/doa-summit-programme-v2-1.pdf | ||||||
24 Oct 2024 | Webinar | TBC | UKSG webinar | Tom Grady | ||||||
24 Oct 2024 | Webinar | Delivering Open Access for Books by Default: The role of community-led funding models and infrastructures | IOAP / OIPA Webinar | Joe Deville, Tom Grady, Toby Steiner | https://ioapblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/ioap-and-oipa-webinar-ioap-and-oipa.html | |||||
01-02 Oct 2024 | Presentation & Panel discussion | Copim — community-led infrastructures for OA books | JurOA conference 2024 | Toby Steiner | tbd. | |||||
17 September 2024 | Presentation & Panel discussion | Open Access and Precarity in the Academic Landscape: Learning from the Experiences of Authors and Scholar-led Publishers | OASPA 2024 Conference | Joe Deville & Judith Fathallah | ||||||
16 September 2024 | Poster presentation | Can scaling small scale? Lessons learned from building community-led infrastructures for open access book publishing | OASPA 2024 Conference | Joe Deville | Poster available: https://zenodo.org/records/13694568 | |||||
11 Sept 2024 | Poster presentation | No open access without open infrastructure: 5 non-profit infrastructures for OA books | Open-Access-Tage 2024 | Hannah Hillen | Poster available (in English, Spanish, German and Brazilian-Portuguese): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12263353 | |||||
21 Aug 2024 | Webinar | Introduction to OA for Books: Challenges and Opportunities | UKSG webinar series “Introduction to OA” | Tom Grady Sam Nesbit (Head of Schol Comms @ Sussex Uni Library) | Event page: https://www.uksg.org/event/ioa24 | |||||
19 Aug 2024 | Conference presentation | Can STS transform scholarly publishing? | EASST/4S Conference | Joe Deville | ||||||
16 Aug 2024 | Keynote talk | Towards a fairer, more sustainable future for open access books | Virginia Scholarly Communication Interest Group (VASCIG) Summer Meeting | Joe Deville | ||||||
16-19 Jul 2024 | Roundtable | Experimenting with academic knowledge production | 11th quadrennial joint conference of EASST and 4S | Janneke Adema, Simon Bowie, Rebekka Kiesewetter, Julien McHardy | 03 | |||||
03 July 2024 | Pre-Conference Workshop | Evaluating and Assessing Diamond Open Access Book Initiatives: Challenges and Opportunities | LIBER 2024 | Kevin John Sanders, Niels Stern, Giulia Trentacosti, Joe Deville | ||||||
19 June 2024 | Panel | The Open Book Collective and Thoth: Bringing publishers, libraries and service providers together to establish a shared sustainable open ecosystem for books | OTESSA conference | Judith Fathallah, Livy Snyder, Lidia Uziel, Paula Kennedy, Toby Steiner | ||||||
5 June 2024 | Presentation | Thoth Archiving Network: How institutional repositories can become involved in preserving long-form scholarship | Open Repositories Conference | Miranda Barnes | ||||||
22 May 2024 | Webinar | An Overview of Copim & Open Access Revenue Models | Publishers Association of South Africa - Scholarly Committee, Open Access seminar | Tom Grady | Slides available: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12749998 | |||||
15 May 2024 | Talk | Posthumanities Practice: Performing Publishing Proactively | Wanting Better: The Practice of Publishing for Practice Research, University of Leeds | Janneke Adema | Event at The Centre for Practice Research in the Arts (CePRA), with William Urricchio (MIT/Utrecht University), organised by Nick Thurston, Leeds University | |||||
9 May 2024 | Webinar | Making open access book funding work fairly | Gold Leaf Consulting Webinar | Tom Grady, Kira Hopkins, Kat Baier (CEU Press) | ||||||
1 May 2024 | Panel/talk | Experiments in Academic Book Publishing | Experiments in Radical Publishing. Sonic Screen Lab, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London | Janneke Adema | Wednesday 1 May 5.00-6.30pm Lecture Theatre B https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiments-in-radical-publishing-tickets-884178350247 With Charlotte Crofts (UWE/Screenworks), Ashwani Sharma (UAL/darkmatter), and Mark Peter Wright (UAL/CRiSAP). | |||||
30 April 2024 | Webinar | Making open access book funding work fairly | Open Access Australasia Webinar | Tom Grady, Kira Hopkins, Kat Baier (CEU Press) | ||||||
25 April 2024 | Workshop | How To Facilitate Horizontal Collaboration Between Community-Led Infrastructures for Equitable and Bibliodiverse Futures for Open Access Books? | OPERAS 2024 conference | Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti, Kevin Sanders, Niels Stern, Toby Steiner | https://operas-eu.org/news-and-events/calendar-2/programme/day-1-conference-programme/ | |||||
18 Apr 2024 | Webinar workshop | Practical workshop on evaluating collective funding models for open access books | Jisc Webinar | Tom Grady & Kira Hopkins (co-organisers & facilitators) | https://www.eventsforce.net/jiscevents/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=598003&eventID=2033 | |||||
9 & 10 Apr 2024 | Conference presentation | Getting Out From the Back of the Sofa: Or, How to Achieve Sustainable Funding for Open Access Books | UKSG 2024 | Tom Grady (WP3 Otf); Elaine Sykes (Lancaster) | Accompanying Insights article forthcoming | |||||
8-10 Apr 2024 | Exhibition stand | Copim community stand | UKSG 2024 | Kevin Sanders, Tom Grady, Kira Hopkins, Simon Bowie | ||||||
4 Apr 2024 | Invited talk | Introducing the OBC & Mattering Press | Creating and Developing an Open Access Journal: An experience sharing and networking event. Lancaster University | Joe Deville | ||||||
1 Mar 2024 | Invited talk | Choosing Open Access for Books: Myths and Truths Beyond the BPC (updated version) | Choosing Open Access For Books at UCLAN Library | Judith Fathallah | ||||||
18 Mar 2024 | Lecture | Experimental Book Publishing: Tools, Practices, and Books to Promote the Publication of Experimental Scholarly Works | Northumbria University Open Research Week | Simon Bowie, Janneke Adema | ||||||
19 Feb 2024 until 21 Feb 2024 | Poster presentation | Transparency through community-led open infrastructure: a pathway to trust | 18th International Digital Curation Conference, Edinburgh | Miranda Barnes, Toby Steiner | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10608699 Event link: https://dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc24 | |||||
14 Feb 2024 | Seminar | Open Access infrastructures and higher education futures | Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts Research Seminar | Joe Deville | N/A | |||||
29 Jan 2024 | Webinar | Introducing Opening the Future and CEU Press | CRKN Members Webinar | Tom Grady, Kira Hopkins, CEU Press | Event link: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtceytrzwuHdz2epVQFZJa-A8fcHRCpoXs#/registration | |||||
11 Jan 2024 | Workshop | Thoth Open Metadata: Open, community-led infrastructures for metadata management, dissemination & archiving | ENABLE! workshop | Toby Steiner | Event abstract: https://enable-oa.org/news/einladung-zum-enable-werkstattgespraech-am-11012024-thoth-open-metadata Slides: https://zenodo.org/records/10497884 C. 60 participants | |||||
11 Jan 2024 | Workshop presentation | Books contain Multitudes: Valuing Phone & Spear | Multimodal Appreciation Workshop #1 | Julien McHardy | Event link: https://www2.hu-berlin.de/multimodalappreciation/2023/12/29/multimodal-appreciation-workshop-1-program/ | |||||
12 Dec 2023 | Presentation | Open Book Collective: Collective Paths Toward an Open and Sustainable Ecosystem for Monographs | CNI Conference, Washington DC | Lidia Uziel, Livy Snyder | Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWzE2_uNk8 Participants: c. 50 (in person) | |||||
8 Dec 2023 | Poster | Closing the Knowledge Gap: Improving Open Access Knowledge Sharing between Publishers, Authors, and Libraries | The Charleston Virtual Conference | Livy Snyder | Participants: 60 (in person) Poster available to view online: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12751568 | |||||
29 Nov 2023 | Presentation | Meet the Open Book Collective | Opening the Future and the Open Book Collective. Diamond Open Access for Books? Open Access Network, hosted at University of Konstanz | Joe Deville | Slides: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10224941 Participants: c. 50 | |||||
29 Nov 2023 | Presentation | Making Open Access Book Funding Work Fairly: Opening the Future Library Membership Scheme | Opening the Future and the Open Book Collective. Diamond Open Access for Books? Open Access Network, hosted at University of Konstanz | Tom Grady | Slides: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10224675 Participants: c. 50 | |||||
27 Nov 2023 | Conference presentation | A Community-led Future for OA Books: How can new OA infrastructures enable libraries to support ‘scaling small’ in scholarly publishing? | The Charleston Virtual Conference | Lidia Uziel, Livy Snyder, Dave Park, Toby Steiner | Event page: https://www.charleston-hub.com/the-charleston-conference/welcome/conference-agenda/ Participants: 88 (online) | |||||
15 Nov 2023 | Invited talk | Choosing Open Access for Books: Myths and Truths Beyond the BPC | Unveiling Open Access Monograph Publishing | Judith Fathallah | Event at Exeter University Event page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unveiling-open-access-monograph-publishing-tickets-747061369667 | |||||
13 Nov 2023 | Conference presentation | Looking to a more equitable future: the institutional repository as digital monograph archive for the small and scholar-led press | UKCoRR Members Day 2023 | Miranda Barnes | ||||||
8 Nov 2023 | Conference contribution | Thoth Archiving Network: Supporting Small and Scholar-led Publishers with Repository-Led Preservation of OA Books | The 18th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing | Miranda Barnes, Gareth Cole, Toby Steiner | Event page: https://site.uit.no/muninconf/program/ Abstract: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/7140 Slides: 10.5281/zenodo.10089533 | |||||
6 Nov 2023 until 1 Dec 2023 | Conference stand and poster | Copim information stand | The Charleston Conference | Livy Snyder | Event page: https://www.charleston-hub.com/the-charleston-conference/welcome/conference-agenda/ | |||||
30 Oct 2023 | Presentation | Networks of libraries supporting open access book publishing | Open and Engaged 2023: Community Over Commercialisation, British Library | Rupert Gatti | https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/open-and-engaged-2023.html Slides: 10.5281/zenodo.10225439 https://bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/conference_items/48fba8b5-7a20-4ecb-bd44-e1643d65b577 | |||||
26 Oct 2023 | Keynote | Reflections on experimenting with book publishing in Copim and Open Book Futures | Utrecht University Library Open Textbooks project workshop | Simon Bowie | ||||||
26 Oct 2023 | Presentation | Introducing the Open Book Collective | Open Access Week: University of Bremen | Kevin Sanders | Slides: https://m.suub.uni-bremen.de/uploads/cms/files/Introducing_OBC_Bremen_KS_2023_10_26_1_2.pdf | |||||
26 Oct 2023 | Presentation | Managing and Disseminating Open Metadata of Scholarly Monographs | Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2023 | Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei | Abstract: https://workshop-oc.github.io/#about | |||||
25 Oct 2023 | Webinar | OA Week webinar on Thoth Open Metadata | Open Access Week, University of Latvia Library | Toby Steiner | Event page: https://www.biblioteka.lu.lv/par-mums/zinas/zina/t/80629/ | |||||
24 Oct 2023 | Panellist | Open Access Books: Panel Discussion | Open Access Week 2023 - University of Derby | Joe Deville | Event page: https://libcal.derby.ac.uk/calendar/events/UoDOpenAccessWeek23OABooks Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4YiVSqflRY | |||||
24 Oct 2023 | Webinar | Beyond BPCs: Towards fairer, more sustainable futures for Open Access books | Danish Network for Open Access, Open Access Week 2023 Webinars | Joe Deville | Event page: https://openaccess.dk/oaw2023/tuesday_oct_24_2 Slides: 10.5281/zenodo.10225591. Recording: https://oer.ku.dk/media/t/0_4s4nbeko | |||||
24 Oct 2023 | Panel | Advancing Community-Led Open Infrastructure | Boulder OA week event | Janneke Adema | Event page: https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/open-access-week | |||||
23 Oct 2023 | Webinar panel | Scholars are doing it for themselves: The challenges and opportunities of open access scholar-led publishing | Open Access Week, Sheffield University | Toby Steiner | Event page: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/events/open-access-week-2023 | |||||
19 Oct 2023 | Pre-recorded contribution | Congratulations to UCT Press on its relaunch | Relaunch of University of Cape Town Press (UCT) | 50 attendees at event | ||||||
4 Oct 2023 | Webinar panel | Open Infrastructures for Open Access books: Community-led Metadata Management, Dissemination & Archiving with Thoth | Jisc webinar: Collective funding models for open access books — the importance of community-led open infrastructures | Toby Steiner | Event page: https://beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/collective-funding-models-for-open-access-books-oct-2023 Presentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8406752 | |||||
29 Sep 2023 | Workshop Panel | Die Zukunft von Open-Access-Büchern in der deutschen Open-Access-Landschaft: Strategische, ökonomische und wissenschaftspolitische Perspektiven | Open-Access-Tage 2023: “Visionen gestalten” | Toby Steiner | Event page: https://open-access-tage.de/open-access-tage-2023-berlin/programm/donnerstag-28092023 | |||||
29 Sep 2023 | Poster | Thoth Open Metadata Management and Distribution Service for OA Books | Open-Access-Tage 2023: “Visionen gestalten” | Toby Steiner | ||||||
27 Sep 2023 | Presentation | COPIM und Governance von wissenschaftsgeleiteten Publikationsinfrastrukturen | Satelliten-Konferenz „Wissenschaftsgeleitetes Open-Access-Publizieren“ zu den Open-Access-Tagen 2023 | Toby Steiner | Event website: https://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/de/forschung/infomanagement/events/oat23ibi Presentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8385346 | |||||
20 Sep 2023 | Poster | OASPA 2023 Conference on Open Scholarship | OASPA 2023 Conference | Toby Steiner | Poster: https://oaspa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Toby-Steiner-thoth-poster-OASPA2023-A1-Steiner.pdf | |||||
20 Sep 2023 | Panel | Equity and sustainability in Diamond OA publishing | OASPA 2023 Conference | Judith Fathallah with Sharla Lair, Amanda Ramalho, Caroline Edwards and Rob Cookson | Event page: https://oaspa.org/2023-conference-program/ | |||||
19 Sep 2023 | Poster | Getting Out From The Back of the Sofa: Sustainable Funding for Open Access Books | OASPA 2023 Conference | Tom Grady & Lucy Barnes | Poster: https://oaspa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Tom-Grady-OASPA23-poster_final.pdf | |||||
6 Sep 2023 | Presentation | The Open Book Collective: An Infrastructure for Equity and Diversity | OAI13 | Judith Fathallah | ||||||
2 Sep 2023 | Presentation | Open Metadata Management and Dissemination with Thoth | OSCAL2023 | Vincent van Gerven Oei | ||||||
3 Aug 2023 | Workshop | Publishing from Collections Using Linked Open Data Source and Computational Publishing Pipelines | FSCI 2023 Enhancing the Global Impact of Open Scholarship | Simon Worthington, Simon Bowie, Janneke Adema | https://force11.org/fsci/post/course-list-with-abstracts-2023/ | |||||
14 Jul 2023 | Webinar | Open Book Futures: Working together to Build Community-owned Infrastructures for OA books | COPIM – SciELO 25 Years Seminar | Lucy Barnes, Joe Deville, Rupert Gatti, Tom Grady, Toby Steiner | Event page: https://25.scielo.org/en/seminars/copim/ Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8142775 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfdUZyLkMBE c.60 participants | |||||
6 Jul 2023 | Poster Presentation | Open Book Collective & Thoth Open Metadata posters | LIBER 2023 | Francesca Corazza & Toby Steiner | ||||||
29 Jun 2023 | Webinar | Developing equitable OA for books: Building open infrastructure | 'My heart is an open book': Open Access for longform research [Organised by the University of Sussex] | Lucy Barnes | ||||||
Conference-virtual stand | The COPIM Project’s Tools and Infrastructures to Support Open Access Monographs | Open Science Conference | Joe Deville, Tom Grady and Tobias Steiner | |||||||
21 Jun 2023 | Conference - presentation | Another New Normal: How Can We Sustainably Fund Open Access Monographs | Academic Libraries North Conference 2023 | Tom Grady and Joe Deville | Abstract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k03ta43-t4CqwIBw5FtEDXwtbvXU1QaN/edit Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10226654 c.50 UK-based librarians | |||||
13 Jun 2023 | Keynote | Experimenting with Living Books as a Posthumanities Practice | Communication in Culture and Society – Research at the crossroads of audience, public, and collaboration, Linköping University Research Retreat | Janneke Adema (with Nicholas Thoburn, Jonas & Cecilia Grönberg and Erica Engdahl | Slides: 10.5281/zenodo.10225905. | |||||
6 Jun 2023 | Conference - presentation | ‘Promoting Bibliodiversity in Academic Publishing: Scaling Small and Experimental Post-Publishing’ | Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI), London South Bank University | Janneke Adema | https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=7082 Slides: 10.5281/zenodo.10226038 | |||||
2 Jun 2023 | Conference - presentation | Scaling Small: The Open Book Collective Launch and Platform | Practice | OTESSA 2023 | Judith Fathallah | Event page: https://otessa.org/2023/ | |||||
25 May 2023 | Conference - panel | Sustainable futures for OA book publishing: Sheffield, St. Andrews and the Open Book | National Acquisitions Group Seminar 2023 | Judith Fathallah, Kyle Brady, Peter Barr | https://nag.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Abstracts-and-biosV1.pdf | |||||
25 May 2023 | Presentation | Sustainable Funding for Open Access Monographs: Opening the Future and other | National Acquisitions Group Seminar 2023 | Tom Grady | ||||||
23 May 2023 | Webinar | The Open Book Collective: Equity, Diversity and Sustainability in Open Access Book Publishing | OASPA Webinar: Funding Open Access after the Transformation | Judith Fathallah (with Vivian Berghahn, Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés, Evgeniya Lupova-Henry) | https://oaspa.org/webinar-funding-open-access-after-the-transformation/. Slides: https://zenodo.org/record/7991155 700+ participants registered | |||||
9 May 2023 | Presentation | Thoth: Open and Trusted Metadata for Open Access Books and Book Chapters | Library Publishing Coalition Panel | Rupert Gatti | ||||||
May 2023 | Presentation | Open Access infrastructures and higher education futures | Workshop at Lancaster University | Joe Deville and Judith Fathallah |
Events organised by Open Book Futures
Date | Title | External institutions | Internal institutions | Further details | Deliverable no. (if applicable) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
25 Sep 2024 | Copim’s Open Book Futures project—an update and showcase of our work | All work packages | |||
19 Sep 2024 | Crisis in higher education and the future of Diamond open access | LSE Library, LSE Press | OBC, OTF | ||
9-13 Sep 2024 | Capturing Creativity Week 2024 | Bath Spa University, British Library | Loughborough University (Gareth Cole, co-organiser) | c. 150 participants Full details: https://www.ahssresearch.group.cam.ac.uk/events/capturing-creativity-week-2024 | |
9 May 2024 | Making OA Funding Work Fairly for Monographs: Opening the Future & CEU Press | CEU Press Gold Leaf consulting | OtF | 10 Participants | |
7 May 2024 | Workshop with Ubiquity publishers | OBC Thoth | |||
1 May 2024 | Bridging Altruism to Strategy in OA Book Publishing – How Libraries Can Close Funding Gaps to Support a Bibliodiverse Global Shared Collection | University of Delaware Publishing, University of Arizon Libraries, University of Alberta, Iowa State University Digital Press Lyrasis | OBC | Presentations available on Zenodo: Annie Johnson, “Towards an Open Access Strategy for Books” <https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11202986> Harrison W. Inefuku, “Open Access Book Publishing” <https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11202885> Ellen Dubinsky, “OA at UA Libraries” <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11202827> Joe Deville, “Bridging Altruism to Strategy in Open Access Book Publishing” <https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11202754> Sara Chomyc, “University of Alberta Library & Open Access Monographs” <https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11202590> | A2.7 |
30 Apr 2024 | National Libraries Network Meeting #3 | British Library, Library of Congress, German National Library, Dutch National Library, National Library of Qatar, National Library of Scotland | Archiving & Digital Preservation Group (Loughborough University, Thoth) | Third official meeting of the informal National Libraries Network within OBF WP7. | D7.2 |
30 Apr 2024 | CEU Press: Opening the Future, webinar | OA Australasia Network CEU Press | OTF | https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlcuGorT0oGNKl3om9n6wapuuuYQpJ68Qg 30 registered participants. | |
18 Apr 2024 | Webinar: ‘Opening the Future’ – A Reliable Funding Model for Open Access Monographs: Introducing an Innovative Approach to Publishing OA Books Through Library Membership Funding | Kennesaw State University | OTF | https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ato/2024allthingsopen/presentations/5/ Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12749378 100+ participants | |
17 Apr 2024 | Evaluating Evaluation Criteria for OA Book Publishers | Project Muse, OpenEdition. African Platform for Open Scholarship SciELO Books, DOAB, Opening the Future, JSTOR, Thoth, AG Universitätsverlage, University of Georgia Press/AUPresses Fulcrum | OBC | 20 participants. | D2.3a |
11 Apr 2024 | Workshop do Thoth Latin American Publishers, abril de 2024 | Editorial UNRN (Argentina), Editorial Flacso Ecuador, Editorial UR (Colombia) and EUNED (Costa Rica) | Thoth | https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.1a61edad | |
27 Feb 2024 | CEU Press Opening the Future webinar | CEU Press | OTF | Webinar with a group of USA libraries and CEUP to present and discuss the OtF model. | A3.3 |
13 Feb 2024 | Introducing the OBC to IReL members (Irish Library Consortium) | IReL | OBC | ||
7 Feb 2024-9 Feb 2024 | Towards Sustainable Open Access Book Publishing in the African Context | University of Cape Town Library, University of Cape Town Press, African Platform for Open Scholarship, Association of African Universities, Lancaster University, punctum, Mattering Press | OBC Thoth DOAB/OAPEN | 40 participants Workshop programme & resources: https://doi.org/10.21428/41ca814e.c8fbbc53 | D2.5a |
6 Feb 2024 | Webinar 2: Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) & Opening the Future: Funding OA in the Humanities Fairly | CRKN libraries CEU Press | OTF | 15 participants Event page link HERE | |
29 Jan 2024 | Webinar 1: Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) & Opening the Future: Funding OA in the Humanities Fairly | CRKN libraries CEU Press | OTF | 15 participants Event page link HERE | |
25 Jan 2024 | Copim Connects SCONUL libraries: practical strategies to support equitable OA book publishing | SCONUL, | OTF | 350 participants Report on event: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/vmatlpc7/release/1 Recording: https://vimeo.com/906390958 | |
23 Jan 2024 | National Libraries Network Meeting #2 | TBC | Archiving & Digital Preservation Group (Loughborough University, Thoth) | Second official meeting of the informal National Libraries Network within OBF WP7. | |
22 Jan 2024 | Information Hub and Collective Development Fund scoping workshop | Punctum, White Horse Press, Mattering Press, African Minds, Westminster University Press, University of London Press, Leuven University Press, DOAB/OAPEN, Thoth, OBP, meson press, mediastudies.press | OBC | 15 participants. | A2.3 |
15 Jan 2024 | Experimental Publishing Pilots: Match-making workshop for applicants | TBC | OBF (Experimental Publishing Group) | D6.1 | |
11 Jan 2024 | Open Access and Global South Scholars: Needs, Experiences, Barriers | Southern Women Academic Network | Lancaster University, OBC | 10 participants. Workshop report: https://doi.org/10.21428/41ca814e.b423d75c | D2.5a |
29 Nov 2023 | Open Book Collective Development Fund Grant Scoping Workshop | Continental Platform, | OBC | Workshop to inform the OBC Development Fund Grant. | A2.4 |
28 Nov 2023 | COPIM Connects Librarians: OA books options and advice for your authors (hosted online by ALN & COPIM) | Academic Libraries North (ALN) Network, | OBF | With the imminent launch of the UKRI OA books policy in January, and the rise in activity surrounding OA book publishing more broadly, authors need sound guidance to navigate this rapidly developing area of publishing. This webinar, jointly organised by ALN and OA books experts from Copim, will support librarians in making authors aware of their open access options for books. | |
16 Nov 2023 | Thoth Publishers’ workshop | University of Westminster Press, LSE Press, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, SciELO Books, Loughborough University Library, Open Book Collective, Lancaster University, mediastudies.press, textem Verlag, ADOCS Verlag, Scottish Universities Press, meson press, Edinburgh Diamond, and Mattering Press | Thoth, punctum books, Open Book Publishers, Mattering Press | 21 participants. Report on workshop: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-publishers-workshop-2023/release/1 | A4.3 |
8 Nov 2023 | Getting out from the back of the sofa: Sustainable funding for Open Access books | University of Tromso, | OTF | Organised as part of the 18th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing. 20 participants. Abstract: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/7156 Programme link: https://site.uit.no/muninconf/program/ | A3.3 |
1 Nov 2023 | The Times They Are A’ Changing: How Can We Fund Open Access Books Equitably and Sustainably | Project MUSE | OTF | webinar, lightning talks, panel discussion, audience Q&A 432 participants registered Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqDv80x2F8Y Abstract: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516956723405/WN_HLiuPo3SSUeft2q1abtczA#/registration Report on workshop: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/5t35zs1t | A3.3 |
10 Oct 2023 - 11 Oct 2023 | Thoth / OAPEN / OBC Cross-Initiative Outreach Workshop (Den Haag) | OAPEN | Thoth | Session 1 (2.00-3.30pm) - Visual Mapping Exercise | |
4 Oct 2023 | Collective funding models for open access books #3: Supporting Critical OA Infrastructure | Jisc | OBF | https://beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/collective-funding-models-for-open-access-books-oct-2023 | |
27 Sep 2023 | National Libraries Network Meeting #1 | British Library, National Library of Scotland, | Archiving & Digital Preservation Group (Loughborough University, Thoth) | First official meeting of the informal National Libraries Network within OBF WP7. British Library, National Library of Scotland, and German National Library attended. | D7.5 |
19 Jul 2023 | Collective funding models for open access books #2: the Library perspective | Jisc | OBF | https://beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/collective-funding-models-for-open-access-books-july-2023- | |
14 Jul 2023 | Open Book Futures: Working together to Build Community-owned Infrastructures for OA books, COPIM – SciELO 25 Years Seminar | SciELO | OBF | Lucy Barnes, Joe Deville, Rupert Gatti, Tom Grady, Toby Steiner Event page: https://25.scielo.org/en/seminars/copim/ Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8142775 c.60 participants | D2.5a |
21 Jun 2023 | Collective funding models for open access books #1: the Publisher perspective | Jisc | OTF | https://beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/collective-funding-models-for-open-access-books |
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For reference: the equivalent document for the COPIM Project.
